Welcome to Nathan's Cancer Journey

This blog is a reposting of Nathan's Caringbridge page which we updated throughout his battle with Neuroblastoma.

Nathan was born on June 16, 2000, diagnosed with Stage IV Neuroblastoma on April 1, 2003 and died on July 29, 2007.

I have posted the journal here to make it easier to look up by date and also to be able to easily add pictures to the journal entries.

Some of the pictures go along with the text, but many of the pictures you will see were pictures taken on the same date the journal was added, even if the pictures have nothing to do with the text. In the future I may add additional journal entries to go along with pictures to add more explanation/memories.

I am just getting started posting the years of entries and so this will be incomplete for some time. I hope to eventually also post the guestbook entries by date as a comment on the post.

Sunday, July 25, 2004

Sunday, July 25, 2004 5:42 PM CDT

Hello - sorry for the long gap in entries. Luke and I just got back from the Neuroblastoma conference in Chicago.

My parents arrived on Tuesday last week. On Thursday morning Luke and I headed off to Chicago. The conference was very interresting and informative. We also got the chance to meet lots of families and see some friends I have made along the way.

Last night we were able to have a very fun dinner with some friends and family in Chicago. Thanks to you all for joining us!

So - back to Nathan which is why you are reading this....he is doing fine. He has a little cough and had some bowel trouble last week that seems to be resolved now. He won't be having the kideny function test that he needs next week due to several people dropping the ball and not getting authorizations and scheduling done. Insurance changes the next week and the newly merged company had not even gotten the new people in the system so we can even get an authorization at this point. I can't believe a huge HR department could be so unorganized, especially when they are preveneting their employees from getting medical care! Anyway - I don't know when he will get anything done for the kidney function - maybe we will do it in New York.

This week does not hold anything medical for Nathan (at least not at this point). Well, actually Nathan's oncologist thinks we could repeat the urine test he recently did but I guess I am not leaning towards that because it is just an unneccessary blood draw if we get the same results. I am also getting tired of all of this and when it comes to a struggle to get things scheduled, authorized, figured out I am just surrendering on this one. We'll see if his oncologist calls to figure it all out.

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